His comments about the vulnerability of the US Treasury to service its debts due to the Fed sent the yield on 10-year US government bonds to a seven-year high. On Wednesday, US indices had their worst session since February. Then, in one day, the index of blue chips, or the largest US corporations, the Dow Jones erased …

The month was marked by the extremely high activity of our health economist Arkadi Sharkov in the media. Currently, a deep public debate is underway in our country regarding the problems in the healthcare system and the necessary reforms that can solve them. Sharkov and others took an active part in this debate in all possible ways …

They save the capital invested in emotionally charged, unfunded projects like yours by liquidating it in time before it depreciates. The tech messiah has struck again. Last Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided to play smart and pour fire and brimstone on Twitter at the financial markets regulator in …

Dear readers, from EKIP we are officially restarting our column "Monthly Macroeconomic Monitor"! The new format of the column will be a series of infographics that will be published each month after the publication of the relevant data from the NSI. Each infographic will focus on a different sector or a key indicator for the Bulgarian economy. The first months …

Links: EKIP Tax Reform Proposal For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the podcast audio by clicking the “Download” button in the player above. Don’t forget to like and share on Facebook and write a comment with your opinion and/or criticism about this episode! This way you help us grow …

2:20 – EKIP’s Virtual Pension Fund in September 8:00 – Listener Feedback 12:00 – Episode Topic: Fundamentals of Investing in ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds) 39:35 – Financial and Investment News from Bulgaria 58:32 – Macro and Markets – International News 74:12 – Fintech – What are …

Freedom is a supreme value. We all strive to preserve and increase it, and we are very vigilant and sensitive to any external attempts to take it away. But are we sometimes too focused on external threats to our freedom and not notice the ways in which we limit ourselves? Is there …

As a continuation of the topic of the Libertarian approach to immigration, we publish a look at one of the most interesting citizenship systems operating in our time. The Swiss model covers a significant part of the proposed reforms in the aforementioned article, with which we opened the topic in the EKIP. 1. Switzerland has two processes for obtaining citizenship. …

(This article is a summary of the ECT proposal to abolish corporate tax on retained earnings in Bulgaria and the analysis of the potential effects of such a reform. The full text of the report on the topic can be read here.) In recent years, the debate on corporate tax, its optimal level and the resulting …

Links: Bar "Boarding" Board game "King of History" Small NSI user basket For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio of the podcast by clicking on the "Download" button in the player above. Don't forget to like and share on Facebook and write a comment with your opinion and/or criticism about this …